Survive A Single Day

Explore a possible future of human and synthetic beings in the Dark Apocalypse series by C.J. Anderson. Go with Lauren as she enters, survives, and fights to find an exit from the ruined land. You will question the origin of life and embrace the dreams of androids. This is a powerful story about the mystery of love, the finality of death, and the struggle to find hope in a devastated world. Exit Ruinland contains the first four books in the Ruinland series and includes the bonus short story Beyond Ruinland. Enjoy!

The machines threatened her life and her child. Now they will pay the price.

Year 2132. Megabunker, Fort Bragg. Post-Apocalypse. The searing dark chronicles of human and synthetic life continue in Survive Ruinland. Lauren Vasquez will join forces with an elite military unit to seek revenge on the homicidal A.I. Sophia and the ultraviolent combat synthetic Chiron. New alliances and new enemies will be revealed as humans and synthetics all struggle to survive.

Extremely intelligent and murderous machines that will kill anyone seen as a threat.

Beautiful and impoverished, Lauren Vasquez joined the United States military in her youth. She never expected to witness the destruction of Earth. In the year 2131, nuclear and chemical war fueled by religion obliterates all of civilization. Trapped in underground bunkers Lauren and other survivors face homicidal artificial intelligence and fabricated metal assassins who police their new dystopian reality. An unplanned pregnancy by a sociopath further complicates her situation and Lauren will do whatever it takes to protect her unborn son. She holds on to the dream that her baby will not be formed with the emptiness of the father.

A woman soldier carrying an unborn child. Her companion a young rescued orphan. Can they survive a single day?

Cold beyond cold and Lauren worried for Anise. The safeness of the ground felt good under their feet but even with the sun’s light they were in danger of freezing. Bitter, raw, beautiful. Their new homeland. Lauren marveled at all her eyes could see. Rows of healthy evergreen spruce trees. A clear blue sky unhaunted by any dead smoke or nuclear ash. Majestic mountains swirled with snow like sugary white icing. Colors and beauty of the world she thought she’d never see again.

Beyond Ruinland is part of a series but you can read it as a standalone story. You can also find it included as a bonus story in Exit Ruinland.